Length7h 34m
About this audiobook
A tradition rooted in the mythology of romanticism and its conception of the artist as a cultural hero would want to believe that everything pertaining to the life of a genius has to bear the mark of the sublime.
Everything in their lives -gestures, decisions, personality traits, eccentricities, even the most dissonant mistakes- are thus transformed into esthetic substance. We would want their lives to be masterworks, a perfect coherence- and continuity between the work and its creator.
Roland Barthes has criticized this conception as a basically bourgeois aberration - the perennial realism of the bourgeois culture, its need to identify the signified with the signifier. And then we learn about the real human dimension of these heroes- their pettiness, narcissism, avariciousness, arbitrariness, and childishness, all of which are no more than their human specificity. We are scandalized; either the work or the figure lies.
A harmonious painting, a novel or masterful symphony cannot possibly be the product of a person capable of such spiritual smallness. Then we are left with two choices—to dismiss the work as an essentially hypocritical utterance, or to disqualify the creator as the accidental author of some work that happened to be marvelous but was simply by virtue of a great skill, not supported by an equally admirable human quality.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (11)
Includes Goodreads
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
2LETTER TO ISOLDA
3LETTER TO FRIDA
4I. CHILDHOOD AND FIRST MEMORIES
5Experiences will scar you
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6Close relatives
7Cohabiting with genius
8Loneliness and company
9Children between two worlds
10From the little house to the store
11To grow up in a different world
12Frida, the suffering?
13“Laugh at death”
14II. FRIDA’S ORIGINS
15First official photographer of Porfirio Díaz
16Presentiments that come true
17A very special son-in-law
18III. MY MOTHER CRISTINA
19“A few little stings”
20Exposing life
21The art of being Kahlo
22The farm
23Another school: the daily effort
24Care given to Frida during her last months
25Between disbelief and trust
26The tree, the trunk, the branches
27Unfulfilled mothers
28Between the cross and the political meeting
29Living together and family union
30To respect without conceding
31IV. MY AUNT FRIDA
32Loves and men
33“By my own right”
34Illness
35Hospital
36Tastes and gender
37Accident and destiny
38Houses and portraits
39V. MY UNCLE DIEGO
40Facing history
41“I cannot love him for what he is not”
42Artist and politician
43“The Bull” (Diego’s nickname in Europe)
44The animals
45Political refugees
46VI. “THE FRIDOS ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF MASTER FRIDA KAHLO’S DEATH”
47Ambiance in the Blue House
48Clarifications by Rina Lazo
49Getting to meet Frida and Rivera
50Last months
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